Prepare your facility for CFIA inspections with mock audits, documentation review, corrective action plans, and expert guidance on Safe Food for Canadians Regulations (SFCR) compliance.
Montreal's food sector is one of the most diverse in North America, including kosher, halal, ethnic, dairy, and craft food producers, with provincial MAPAQ oversight on top of federal CFIA requirements.
Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA)
Ministère de l'Agriculture, des Pêcheries et de l'Alimentation du Québec (MAPAQ)
Direction régionale de santé publique de Montréal
When you engage Iyarkai for CFIA Audit Prep support in Montreal, we map every requirement back to the specific regulator most likely to inspect or audit your facility — so you spend less time guessing and more time building a compliant operation.
Iyarkai Scientific Consultation is Montreal's trusted partner for cfia inspection preparation. As Quebec's vibrant metropolitan food hub, Montreal is home to a growing number of food manufacturers, processors, importers, and exporters who rely on expert food safety compliance to access domestic and international markets. Our experienced consultants bring hands-on regulatory knowledge - including CFIA, SFCR, FDA FSMA, and leading GFSI certification schemes - directly to your Montreal facility. Whether you need to develop your first cfia inspection preparation or strengthen an existing program ahead of a regulatory inspection or retailer audit, Iyarkai delivers measurable results.
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Contact Us TodayA Montreal food facility preparing for CFIA inspection is really preparing for two regulators at once: CFIA verifying Safe Food for Canadians Regulations compliance for federally licensed activities, and MAPAQ, whose provincial inspectors cover Quebec food establishments under the province's own permit system. The agencies coordinate but inspect separately, and their documentation expectations overlap without being identical. Our readiness work walks your facility, PCP, and traceability records against both lenses — in French, English, or both — before either inspector arrives.
CFIA operates in both official languages, and Quebec facilities routinely interact with inspectors in French. Your records can be kept in either language, but they must be retrievable and comprehensible when requested — traceability records in particular must be producible within the SFCR's required timeframes regardless of language. We verify retrieval speed as part of mock inspection.
CFIA verifies federal requirements — your SFC licence scope, Preventive Control Plan, traceability, and recall readiness — typically for facilities trading interprovincially or internationally. MAPAQ inspects under Quebec's food regulations, covering permits, hygiene, and temperature control with a strong retail and preparation focus. Federally licensed Montreal processors deal with both; we prepare one evidence base that serves the two.
On-site readiness for Canadian Food Inspection Agency inspections under the Safe Food for Canadians Regulations (SFCR).
2 to 6 weeks of pre-inspection readiness work depending on facility maturity.
CFIA / SFCR